“There was no telling who this head, or this leg, or that arm, belonged to... So I scattered the limbs in my painting and realized that in this way I was getting much closer to the truth than Michelangelo did when he concentrated on every separate muscle.”

as quoted from the exhibition catalogue Fernand Legér, Paris, 1956
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1950's

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